So I'm now at "goal". That is to say, I've made all the weight loss-related goals I started with. I lost over 90 pounds, I have a normal BMI, and I'm in a size smaller than 10, my initial size goal. I really didn't have any goals beyond that. I did develop a few new goals along the way and I've managed to knock off most of them too.
But I don't really feel "done."
Sure, I look pretty good in my clothes and my shapewear. But I do have fat that I can get rid of and want to get rid of. I'd like to have a resting pulse rate and a body fat percentage that is closer to the "athlete" range instead of the "somewhat fit, old broad" range as well. I also have a lot of new sports-related goals that I didn't have before.
So here is my updates list of goals:
- (completed)
Get off my BP meds - (completed)
Get rid of my plantar fasciitis once and for all - (completed)
Get rid of my GERD - (completed)
Go swimming with my daughter and stop making excuses every time she asks because I don't want to deal with appearing in a bathing suit in public - (completed)
Be at least a size 10, maybe smaller, and to shop in regular stores and not just the fat old lady department at Macys - (completed)
Get down to 175 - (completed)
No longer be clinically obese - (completed)
Get down to 155 - (completed)
Have a normal BMI - Get down to 125 (possible goal weight?)
- Be in a true size 6
- Have a body fat percentage in the 18 - 22% range
- Get my resting pulse rate into the low 50s
- (completed)
Walk 10,000 steps a day at least 4 days a week - (completed)
Complete a 5K - Complete a Sprint Triathlon
- Complete a Sprint Triathlon in under 2:30
- Complete a Century Ride
- Complete a 10K
- Be able to run a marathon
- Complete an Ironman or at least a HIM
- Give my inner "skinny bitch" the body she deserves.
- Live into my 90s as one of those cantakerous little old ladies with 10x as much energy as the youngsters I run circles around (so far so good)
So when will I be done?
All I can say is: I'll know when I know. But the body fat % and size goals are probably the two key "done" goals on my current list.